We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.